It's nearly 2017. Yep. In 30 days it will be New Year's Eve, an event celebrated around the world. For many 2016 has been a difficult and challenging year that they want to see left behind, forgotten. For some it has been a year of enlightenment and growth.
I have been working on a particular novel off and on for a number of years. I just didn't seem to be able to get control of it, or to figure out how I wanted to present the story, or how to set it up. Should it be one huge novel? (Have you ever read The Far Pavilions? Hmmmm. Maybe I should read it again. That was a long-ago read for me.) Or should it be a series of stories covering the lives of several generations in the family. (A saga.) Then 2016 NaNoWriMo came along and I knew what to do with it.
One day as I walked down the stairs ahead of my husband I said, "I don't know how to get everything done. I can't finish anything because I'm so busy jumping from one thing to another to another." In the simple way he is known for he said, "Why don't you try doing one thing at a time."
Well, for a man that makes a lot of sense, right? But we women, we have to do so many things at one time that we are constantly shifting gears and just doing what we can before we have to jump to the next thing. But like my husband's suggestion about doing one thing at a time, NaNoWriMo asked for a commitment of 50,000 words of a novel. No, 50,000 words doesn't necessarily a novel make. But it managed to get me focused on one part of the complete tale. I titled it FOURTEEN. And it will be part of a series. But it starts with a young woman who has reached the age when the workings of the world become clearer, not the "everyone is equal and accepted" stage of childhood. The realities of her world become harsh and come thick and fast as she seeks to find the person she was born to be.
As I worked on NaNo (and I did not write everyday. I may have written 15 of the 30 days because of other commitments and Thanksgiving.) I kept a notebook in which I put my notes. As author Carter Sickels said at the workshop in July, the only things that goes into that notebook are the things that pertain to the novel you are working on. If I had a question, that's where I wrote it down. If I had references that will have relevance in future stories in the series, that's where I wrote them down because it's all part of the saga. It's just going to be broken down into digestible parts.
So, if you're struggling with your novel, maybe you have too much going on and you need to take another look. If you had 30 days and 50,000 words for that story, what would be the most important points of that story? What would you focus on? Give it a shot.
So, I had this "motto" I used for two years. I was supposed to start my master's in creative writing but $42K in student loans at my age just wasn't my cup of tea. So, I resolved to do what I have to do on my own. (Did you know there is a DIYMFA?) And the motto? "For a new me in 2014."
Well, I did learn a lot of things in 2014. But as the year wound down and I did not have a novel finished I told myself it was a year more about learning more about myself. I don't want to tell too much. That gives away the mystery of me and eases the tension that might keep you coming back to read my blog. LOL! The best thing I learned: I can now focus on my goals. I've cleared away the guilt my family causes when I fail to meet their demands aka needs. I've come to the realization that adult children know how to find me when/if they need me. And just because The Man (cradle robber that he is) retired doesn't mean I did. He will just have to adjust.
I write regularly for a local agency, articles that appear in the newspaper. My client asked me to list the topics I have written about over the last three years. (I've written for them for 15 years.) Well, did my eyes fly open! There are 50 articles per year, minimum, a variety of topics, representing my writing skills and talent. My client was impressed when I submitted the list to her. As I compiled that list I had to open up the old laptop that hadn't been used in a couple of years. It's very ssssssssllllllllooooooowwwwww. But I started to look at some of my fiction. Really? I WROTE THAT??? ME??? And I'm holding myself back WHY???
I get a regular email from author Kristen Lamb (https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/how-to-create-multi-dimensional-characters-everybody-lies). If you click on that link it will take you to today's (1/28/2015) blog entry. And the words couldn't have come at a better time. Not only that, but I clinked the link for an earlier entry that was on the same topic. And those words are also helpful to me as I revise this WIP and make sure that my characters are doing what they need to do. After all, if this is going to be the first novel to represent my authorial abilities, I want to make a good and lasting first impression.
Maybe Lamb's blog will help you, too. It never hurts to hear from those who have mastered their craft.
It's happened again. I pushed my writing WORK to the back burner for drama within the family. Why do I do this? I guess the first step is recognizing the problem so I can proceed to the next step, changing the behavior.
As "D" told me, my husband is an adult, my children all are adults. They all should be able to make their decisions and live with their consequences, and I should focus on my life, my goals and my challenges after raising my family and caring for my parents while they were living.
That's a pretty stiff order for someone who was raised to be so conscientious.
"I think your mom worked a little too hard to make you responsible," D said. And D is right, even though D never met my parents. D is very wise.
I've always heard that Catholics master guilt and carry it always. I have to tell you, I am not Catholic, wasn't raised Catholic, but Catholics didn't corner the market on guilt. Is it because Mom would say, "I see guilt written all over your face" whether I was guilty or innocent?
Look at Clint Eastwood. He's the same age my mother would be if she was living. He is still active in his career, presenting important stories about life. Have you figured out yet that his spaghetti westerns also were political statements? Peel away the layers of the onion until you get to the core of it and you will see that everything is political in some way. Each artist presents his or her interpretation through their own skills and talents.
So, today I am setting boundaries to prevent interruptions to my skill building and use of my gifts and talents given to me by God who created me. Whether the people in my life understand or not.
Today I am detaching from others' responsibilities and tending to my own.
©2014 Cathy Thomas Brownfield ~ All Rights Reserved.
A friend has talked about writing a historical novel for as long as I've known him. He said he doesn't want to start writing it until he knows exactly what he wants it to be, as if the first draft will be the final draft. I have said many times, "Just start writing scenes, the ones you know. You can figure out what to do with them later." But he wouldn't. Or maybe he couldn't. Maybe he was afraid. Are writers really afraid???
Am I afraid to write my novels? Or is it something else? What could that something else be? Well, I'm thinking it COULD be that I don't know the whole story when I start writing. So I get to a certain place in the writing of a novel and, in a panic, I think, "Oh, no! I don't know where this story is supposed to go!"
This was a real issue for me for a long time. Then I read Stephen King's book, On Writing, where he talks about The Stand. He had written a lot of it when he got to the point that he just didn't know what to do with it, where it was going. He said he nearly trashed the whole thing. Then one day it hit him where it needed to go and he finished writing it.
I will tell you that I read the unabridged version of The Stand. I knew exactly where he started foundering and wandering in circles trying to pick up the thread to continue with the story. I had a really hard time reading that book! It took me a few weeks here, a few weeks there, to actually completely read it. Over a period of a year! I would read a while, then set it aside and go read some other things. Then go back and read some more. I have NEVER read a book that way before or since. But it surely gave me some insight into writing my own stories.
So, maybe J is correct and he needs to know the whole story before he starts to write. But sometimes the story comes through the writing. You have to start somewhere, even if the place you start ends up not being the starting point of your story.
(c) 2014 Cathy Thomas Brownfield ~ All Rights Reserved.
I stared at him, still unable to conceive how Mr. Drama can say things like that. He doesn't see all of the accomplishments I have achieved. He sees the one I've always wanted but haven't completed. He doesn't see that he has done everything in his power to make sure my every minute had a claim on it so I would be forced to back away from my work.
A while back I told you I had discovered a way to write a rough draft with a beginning, a middle and an end. Every time I go shopping I look for inexpensive (OK, cheap) journals with pretty covers. If they have 120 sheets of paper that means 240 pages of handwritten story! And I'm getting that pretty down pat, in my opinion.
Now I am at the next hurdle: editing/revising/rewriting. Why am I so afraid of this?
More than 20 years ago I wrote a children's picture book for our twin daughters. My mother read it. She thought it could use a little tweaking. This sounds familiar. Did I already talk about this? Long story short, what if I can't edit, revise, rewrite? What if I'm not smart enough to do it?
This morning I devoted 2-1/2 hours to working on a new story in a new journal. When the time went off I set it for 20 minutes more to wrap up the day with my characters in that story. I plan to do the same tomorrow and each day after that until it is finished.
After lunch I worked on the article for my paying gig. The executive director that I report to at the agency emailed me yesterday to say she was thinking as she finished reading the most recent article in the newspaper. She noticed on her Rolodex that she hired me March 16, 2000. At 50 articles per year she estimated more than 650 articles and other publicity could be credited to me. The articles have directed a lot of people to seek assistance to find their way to a healthy lifestyle. She said she hopes this will continue.
I told her about once a year I think, "I don't want to do this anymore and I need to tell Eloise." Then I am past the moment and good to go for another year. I don't make a great deal of money doing this job but I don't want to let go of it, either.
Supper is behind me now. I'm going to set the timer for 2-1/2 hours and work on revisions/rewriting/editing Belle and Sam's story. The first step is the hardest, right? Stephen King could make this a lot easier for me if he would offer to spend six or eight weeks tutoring me through this process, but I don't think I will spend too much time waiting since he doesn't even know I'm a writer!
It's not likely that I will get done everything on my to-do list for today, things like planting tomato seeds, pepper seeds and soaking heavenly blue morning glory seeds. Nor will the dusting and vacuuming carry me past a successful white glove test. But today still will end productive.
© 2014 Cathy Thomas Brownfield ~ All Rights Reserved. This blog may not be reproduced in any way without the permission of the author.
Fellow writer, Janet Elaine Smith, after publishing more than 20 books, still carries index cards around in her handbag. When she's out and about and observes someone or something interesting, she jots it down on an index card to use in one of her stories. It might be an action one of her characters might do, or something he or she might wear, or even the character herself or himself. After all of these years, Janet still does the cards. It's something I tried but I felt like it was slowing me down.
It's not that I don't have plenty of story ideas. It's that I haven't finished a complete novel. Well, I HAVE completed several drafts, but the thought of editing, of rewriting, revising, is a scary one.
Twenty or so years ago I wrote a children's picture book based on my twin daughters. I loved it. My mother read it. She said it needed a little work. When she read the revision she said I had overdone the editing and the story had lost its charm. I wish I would have submitted the original version. I should have submitted the story.
Janet urged me to take one of my stories and just finish it, whatever it takes for me to do it. So…I am trying to do that. I HAVE to make it a priority so the people in my life will see how important this is and how vital they are to my achieving my goals.
Then yesterday a young man in our community said he didn't want to be insulting but he wasn't aware of any of my work being published. It was a post online so I interpreted him to be questioning my claim to being a writer. My own spouse says the same kinds of things. I look at the piles and shelves and drawers and boxes of papers and files of articles, research, stories, flash drives and floppy disks and can't fathom how he can see all of it and ask, "How long is it going to take you to start that book you started 30 years ago?" He really has no idea.
Ah. Maybe the thing is, he's trying to push me to write and sell so I can carry us financially while he…does what? He never has been much of a supporter of what I do. It's hard to be a believer when you don't understand a profession…and writing is a profession you aren't going to understand unless you are one.
The point I'm trying to make is that there are reasons (excuses?) that hold us back from achieving those dreams and goals.
When I submitted my thesis novel to a publisher he came back with "This is an important story that needs to be told." Two men had made the same statement, a very important statement. This is an important story.
I wrote a children's picture book when our twin daughters (now 26) were small. Mom liked it. I edited it. Mom said I had been too heavy-handed because I had taken the heart and soul out of it. I never touched it again.
In November I found a rough draft technique that allowed me to write a complete rough draft. I used a journal and hand wrote the story from start to finish. I could see how many pages I had written, how far I was proceeding and when it was time to start to move toward the resolution. I did it again with another story in December. If I hurry, I will have a third one for January. I have written "books." The next hurdle is revising and editing. You have to start revising and editing sometime, that little voice inside my head says.
Patti Capel-Swartz says editing is the fun part.
Someone else – I can't recall who it was – said it's the worst part. I guess it doesn't matter which it is or whether it is. If I'm going to publish a book, I have to do it, fun or not.
2014 is MY year. I've been preparing for 2014 for two years. MY YEAR. So I'm going to put the polar vortex to good use, drink hot tea and café au lait and write … write … write … And edit … edit … edit ... The words have to come from the heart and the hearts of my characters. What I say must be believable through the course of the story. And I need to follow Maureen's advice, Just write a good story.
Family-oriented, striving for my personal agenda, loyal and true.


Home»Entertainment » Montreal Tartare festival – the next food fad in town?
Montreal Tartare festival – The food landscape in North America has been changing over the last few decades drastically. The arrival of new immigrants has been a contributing factor, of course, souvlakis came with the Greeks, while Arabs and other people from the Middle East have brought shish taouk and many different sauces and flavours. A few decades ago it was sushi, a traditional Japanese food that to some was somehow shocking at first. The shock element came from the fact that this now ubiquitous piece of gastronomy is based on the idea of eating raw fish, something not everyone was ready to do. In the same line, we see these days the growing popularity of ceviche, a Peruvian culinary delight in which fish and seafood are "cooked" with lime juice.
If sushi especially, and then ceviche, have made people in Montreal to accept the notion of eating something without being cooked conventionally, then Montrealers may be ready for the probable next food fad in town: raw meat, more specifically raw beef. The tartare is coming here, and this week it was the subject of a celebration held at various restaurants throughout the city where the dish is slowly, but surely, winning adepts.
The most common recipe calls for raw ground sirloin, some herbs, a raw egg yolk, pepper, onions and some "cooking" agent which could be vinegar or citrus juice. Many stories surround the tartare origins. It is not clear where the dish originated, according to some, the name "tartare" doesn't have anything to do with the Tartar (or Tatar) people of Asia, which at one point dominated over large parts of that continent, especially the territory in southern Russia. The name would simply refer to the "tartare sauce" (in France it would be known as "boeuf à la tartare"). But those who claim that the real origin of this meal goes indeed back to the feared Tartar warriors don't accept that rather mild origin of the tartare. Horsemen famous for their military abilities and their capacity to survive as nomadic fighters, the Tartars always on the move, would transport with them pieces of raw meat which they would place under their saddles. The meat, in direct contact with the horses' skin, would have been "cooked" by the acidic sweat of the animals. Hmm, not very appetizing. Don't worry though; no horse sweat would be involved in the tartare preparation at the more than forty restaurants that are participating this week in the Montreal's Tartarefest, where you can taste a tartare and an alcoholic beverage for only $10. The types of tartare are not limited to beef, they can also be made of venison, and for the lovers of fish, salmon and tuna.


To create, buy, do, or otherwise actualize the things you pin on Pinterest.
I really love Pinterest, but I've quickly realized that I've been pinning and pinning stuff rather than actually doing or making these things that I'm so charmed by.
And so it should come as no surprise to those who regularly read this blog that the first thing I decided to pinplement was a recipe: lemon poppyseed pancakes.
Not as pretty, but yay!
It was the world's smallest batch of pancakes as Patrick wasn't interested in having any (I just don't get him sometimes), and I really didn't need a load of them, so that's all I made; three little pancakes (that's a bread plate they're on, not a dinner plate).
Making such a small amount sort of felt like that scene in Bridesmaids where Kristen Wiig creates that single, elaborate cupcake; the only difference is that I didn't eat what I made as glumly as she did.
Fact: Never in my life have I ever eaten something glumly - not even the food at a funeral.
Wow. Congratulations, Jen. After all, who could ever wallow in sadness when finger sandwiches* and date squares* are around.
* The Official Refreshments of Funerals since 1894.
Where was I? Oh, right: Lemon poppyseed pancakes. Did these differ much from regular pancakes? Not really. Just a tad crunchier, as if I was eating pancakes with flavourless roe baked into them. But that's not really the point. The point is this: Hurrah for doing something and not just pathetically staring at things that other people on the Internet have done.
... Ooh. I hope that last sentence didn't make you feel awkward, People of the Internet. You're not the pathetic ones - I was totally talking about myself and those other weirdos out there. Every second you spend on this blog actually makes you cooler. It's a fact.
Oh, God. Please don't ever leave me, People of the Internet. I need you.
Good idea! I need to DO more stuff too (but I'll always have time for my Jen but never Jenn fix!).
Love it. Pinplement. I'm there.
Love your new word! My sister-in-law has a board on pinterest that is just of stuff she made from pinterest! I can steal both your ideas and make a pinplement board!
When my facebook friends post a pinterest pinplementation (awesome word! Love it!) I give them this. And now, I give it to you, as well.
Oh, I love your blog. And you've inspired me to Pinplement... Maybe one of the THOUSAND crock pot recipes I've pinned. And yet I've never even taken my crock pot out of the box. Or felt or crochet flowers, even though I don't know how to do either. One thing I do know -- you make me laugh and I thank you!
i'll say it. i'm afaid of pinterest. it's overwhelming. i'll never have the time to sort it out and even less time to actually do it. the concept is intriguing but the actuality of the situation scares the bejezus out of me.
Karen - thank you, madame!
MMM - I'm glad it comes across as humorous and not Yikes-Does-She-Have-Multiple-Personalities?
Anon - Perfect! Happy Do'ing of Stuff!
Sparkleneely - Thank you! Oh, yes, crockpot! I really need to break mine out more often too. What will you make first? I'm thinking chilli!
Katie - Haha. Awesome. Your friend is wise. Wise, wise, wise.


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White House expands birth control exemptions for employers with religious objections
The mother provincial of Little Sisters of the Poor, one of the religious groups that has opposed the mandate, welcomed the administration's new regulations.
Nuns and their supporters rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on March 23, 2016, as the court hears arguments to allow birth control in health care plans in the Zubik vs. Burwell case. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Adelle M. Banks
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The Trump administration has issued new rules it says will "provide conscience protections for Americans who have a religious or moral objection to health insurance that covers contraception methods."
The final rules follow interim regulations issued a little more than a year ago by the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury that aimed to protect Americans with such objections from paying for health insurance that provided birth control. The departments claim a "small fraction" of the nation's 165 million women will be affected.
The rules counter the efforts by the Obama administration to provide access to free contraception through a provision of the Affordable Care Act. Those efforts were opposed by many critics of the previous administration who now provide a base of support for the current one.
"The first of today's final rules provides an exemption from the contraceptive coverage mandate to entities that object to services covered by the mandate on the basis of sincerely held religious beliefs," HHS said in a news release issued Wednesday (Nov. 7).
"The second final rule provides protections to nonprofit organizations and small businesses that have non-religious moral convictions opposing services covered by the mandate."
On the National Day of Prayer in May 2017, President Trump signed an executive order that said the government would address "conscience-based objections" to the health care mandate. The order, which drew mixed reviews, called for the departments issuing the rules to consider taking the actions they took Wednesday.
The mother provincial of Little Sisters of the Poor, one of the religious groups that opposed the mandate, welcomed the administration's new regulations.
"Today, we are so grateful that the federal government has provided a way for us to continue to serve the elderly poor and stay true to our Catholic faith," Mother Loraine Marie Maguire said in a reaction tweeted by Becket, the law firm that has defended her order in court.
"We pray that lawsuits by the state governments that attempt to prevent this will soon be over and that we can finally serve the elderly poor in peace."
The administration noted that the new rules do not provide exemptions for governmental agencies or for publicly traded businesses.
The announcement, issued the day after the midterm elections, noted that government programs that provide subsidized or free contraceptive coverage to poor women, such as through community health centers, are not included in the exemptions.
But the exemptions do apply to several other groups that may object to the contraception mandate.
"The religious and moral exemptions provided by these rules also apply to institutions of education, issuers, and individuals," HHS said.
The new rules do not prohibit employers from covering contraceptives, HHS said.
The departments making the announcement estimated that the exemptions will affect "no more than approximately 200 employers with religious or moral objections." A fact sheet estimates that the exemptions may affect about 6,400 women and "in no case will they impact more than 127,000 women, which the Departments suggest is far more than will actually be impacted."
The announcement said tens of millions of people are already exempted from the contraception mandate because it does not apply to plans insured through grandfathered coverage that existed prior to the law.
The rules will take effect 60 days after they are published in the Federal Register.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State said the administration's actions enable employers, including universities, to deny religious freedom as well as access to contraception coverage.
"This administration is weaponizing 'religious freedom' to justify hurting the millions of women who depend on contraception for their health and equality," said Americans United President and CEO Rachel Laser. "Bosses shouldn't get to impose their religious beliefs on their employees, nor should universities on their students."
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Sports • Men's Basketball
Third straight men's basketball game impacted by health and safety protocols
Maples Pavilion was supposed to be the stage for a Jan. 6 matchup between Stanford men's basketball and UCLA, but the match was postponed due to Cardinal players being in health and safety protocols. If healthy, the Cardinal will revive Pac-12 play against No. 7 USC on Saturday. (Photo: JOHN TODD/isiphotos.com)
By Zach Zafran
Fans of Stanford men's basketball (8-4, 1-1 Pac-12) will have to wait to see the Cardinal return to the court, as a third straight contest has been affected by COVID-19. On Sunday, it was announced that the Cardinal's game versus No. 5 UCLA (8-1, 1-0 Pac-12) — originally scheduled for Thursday — has been "postponed due to health and safety protocols within the Stanford program."
A press release stated that the Pac-12 will reschedule the matchup "for a later date."
This marks the second Pac-12 contest that the Cardinal will have to reschedule, as their Sunday matchup versus rival Cal (9-5, 2-1 Pac-12) was also postponed due to COVID-19 complications within the Stanford program.
These events follow Stanford's appearance in the Diamond Head Classic in Hawaii, where the Cardinal made their way to the championship after defeating Wyoming (11-2, 0-0 Mountain West) and Liberty (9-6, 0-0 ASUN). Leading the charge was junior forward Spencer Jones, who averaged 20 points per game and earned a spot on the Diamond Head Classic all-tournament team.
Unfortunately, the title game was canceled less than two hours before the scheduled tip-off as positive cases on the Cardinal squad forced a number of players to stay back and isolate themselves. In a gesture that has prompted numerous compliments on his leadership, head coach Jerod Haase remained with the players to assist in delivering food and doing laundry.
@CoachJerodHaase @sambeskind @TheAndyKatz https://t.co/X4FFwgW7lV pic.twitter.com/O5RwybIqTD
— David Berkun (@dberkun05) December 27, 2021
Having a game affected by COVID-19 is nothing new for UCLA, who had five games canceled or postponed in the month of December due to health and safety protocols. Their bout versus Stanford marks the seventh contest out of their last eight scheduled games to have been affected.
However, the Bruins are slated to play Arizona State on Wednesday, in a game that has been rescheduled from what was supposed to be a New Year's Day matchup. This is a promising sign for the Cardinal that indicates they may be able to play against both Cal and UCLA in the near future.
For now, Stanford looks toward its next scheduled game, a Pac-12 matchup versus USC (12-0, 2-0 Pac-12) on Saturday. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. PT at Maples Pavilion.
Zach Zafran is a staff writer in the sports section. He is a freshman from the Bay Area, who is planning on majoring in an engineering discipline. Zach is on an unnecessary amount of intramural teams and can likely be found around campus wearing swim trunks casually. Contact him at sports 'at' stanforddaily.com


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Marie Antoinette (**1/2)
The Girlie Show
Ever been trapped following your girlfriend and her girlfriends around the mall all day while they shopped and giggled and gossiped, leaving you to carry the bags? Marie Antoinette is a lot like that for the heterosexual male moviegoer. This is Sofia Coppola's Girlie World, circa 1770's France, an age where girls acted like girls and men were also girls. I like girls and I liked the movie, but only up to a point. By the end I started fantasizing about Arnold or Stallone or Bruce Willis bursting into the palace at Versailles and shooting everyone dead with the loudest, bloodyingest machine guns imaginable. Even Tom Cruise rappelling into the palace in one of his latex masks would have been sweet. Some violence - any violence - anything at all resembling machismo would have been pleasant. I was even looking forward to the famous "off with their heads!" moment that never actually came.
No one gets their asses kicked in Girlie World France, but there wasn't a single person there who didn't deserve at least a low blow or a bitch slap. Am I glad I wasn't alive back then! I'd have killed as many people as I could and then myself, in that order, just to get the hell out of there. But I should also point out for the fellas who get dragged to see this by their girls, it's not all bad. Kirsten Dunst gets repeatedly undressed by her courtesans. Nice.
Sofia Coppola has gentle, elegant directing style, and she has really good taste in 1980's New Wave music. Unfortunately, she felt no great urgency in telling the story of Marie Antoinette, a young Austrian princess arranged to marry the Dauphin Louis XVI and become Queen of France, as a narrative. The key events of Marie Antoinette's life are depicted in fitful, almost after-the-fact moments. The focus of the movie is the audience being immersed in the decadent world of French royalty in Versailles as Marie Antoinette herself is. Coppola is much, much more interested in the over-the-top opulence of the food, the clothes, the art, furnishings, and mind-boggling wealth of the time. Marie Antoinette almost feels like a Terrence Malick picture, with long, loving beauty shots of food and the grounds of Versailles, only lacking Malick's lyricism.
Coppola eschews the Hollywood Fish Out Of Water formula of storytelling; Marie Antoinette only fleetingly rebels against the stifiling protocol and endless boredom of her world (the best moment is when she leads applause at an opera, which we're told is frowned upon). Coppola and Kirsten Dunst's Marie is no rebel or radical out to change the system; she's just a rich girl who wanted to have some fun once in a while. Coppola is extremely effective in depicting the wasteful lives of the wealthy rulers of France: A whoring King Louis XV, his fey son Louis XVI, and all the chattering, gossiping, insufferable members of the royal court. Coppola is at her best when staging and blocking shots of the movement and elegance of the characters set to her unique musical choices. But there are no strong performances; when the actors would speak, they mostly sounded like actors from a Laguna Beach school play as directed by Paris Hilton.
Gradually, the decadence of the movie becomes deadening. Midway though, I'd had enough of food, clothes, and beauty shots of the palace. The characters in the movie hadn't; it was all they knew and they didn't much care what was going on beyond the manicured palace grounds. There was no one interesting, no one to root for. The primary conflict in the movie is whether or not Marie can get Louis to sleep with her, after years of angelic patience and failed attempts, so that she can produce an heir and solidify both her position as queen and the Franco-Austrian alliance. Despite looking, sounding, and acting gay, we're pointedly told Louis XVI is not in fact gay, he just somehow can't get it up for Marie. I see... Eventually Louis fathers three children by her, though we never see Marie Antoinette pregnant. For that matter, Kirsten Dunst remains perfectly thin for the entire movie despite consuming thousands of calories a day. I ate a donut and drank coffee every morning this week and felt like my ass was expanding. Somehow, Marie Antoinette can burn all those calories by flitting about her palace and laying about her luxurious satin sheets.
It's clear what Sofia Coppola was trying to say: these were rich, spoiled kids who had no business and no interest in running the country. They were the Laguna Beach castmembers of their day and their conversations were about as deep, interesting and informed. Girls are gonna always just want to have fun. The "men" in the movie are all dandy fops.
Marie Antoinette is genuinely baffled why she's loathed by the people of France. Neither she nor Louie had any real compehension of or interest in the bloody and violent Revolution happening in their midst until the angry mob marched right up to their palace doors and literally demanded their heads. The final shot of the movie is not the famous beheading of the king and queen but of a room of the palace completely trashed. The message is clear: The party's over.
On the way out of Marie Antoinette, I overheard a father explain to his young daughter why the people of France were mad at Marie Antoinette: "She was a bad queen. She didn't care about France." That seems to be accurate, but as a bad queen she was a product of a bad court. The people of France did the right thing. All those worthless people had to go.
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toronto - The remains of the Canadian billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife Honey were found in the couple's home in the city of Toronto. Sherman was founder of the pharmaceutical company Apotex.
Apotex said in a statement that he was shocked by the death of Sherman and his wife, according to the Canadian channel CBC. The police reported that the couple was killed under suspicious circumstances, but that the case is not yet treated as a murder investigation.


Sarah Chamberlain lives in the hamlet of Broadclyst Station with her husband and two primary school-aged sons. She is a surveyor in housing compliance for Exeter City Council, and spends the rest of her time rebuilding her house and tending her smallholding. Her interests lie in protecting the integrity of existing communities near Cranbrook, improving the build quality of new houses, and coming from a farming background, in preserving and developing rural communities.
Henry Gent is a 60-year-old farmer who has lived on the family farm at Broadclyst all his life. The farm has just switched from dairy production to producing crops and vegetables, and the next generation is coming into the business, so this is a good time to give some time to the council. A fourth-generation farmer at Broadclyst, Henry wants to concentrate on creating planning policies which will help future generations.
Rebecca -Jayne lives in the new development of Westclyst, an area with a large number of young families. She is currently on a parental break from her nursing degree, and runs a small eco-business from home. Her interests are community-building and combating loneliness and isolation through community action. She is active in promoting community-led action groups such as litter picks and impromptu family-friendly gatherings.
Eleanor is a freelance translator working in the "gig economy" and has lived in rural Broadclyst for 15 years with her husband and 4 children. She's been a parish councillor for ten years, is chair of Broadclyst Twinning Association and has been district councillor for Broadclyst ward since 2017. Her campaign aims include improving broadband in rural areas, better quality for new builds, combating hidden rural deprivation, and improving the management of rubbish and recycling.
Kevin was born and educated in Exeter, and moved to Cranbrook in 2012. He works for a photoelectronics business in Exeter. He is a keen rugby fan (the Chiefs, of course) and likes to travel. He has been Chairman of Cranbrook Town Council since it formed in 2015. His main goal as a councillor is to see Cranbrook become economically successful, with an emphasis on development of the town centre.
Kim has lived in Cranbrook since 2013. As an active town councillor since 2015, Kim has built relationships with all partners involved in the delivery of Cranbrook, including developers, Eon, See the Light, The Police & Crime Commissioner and the local policing team, and has helped many residents with developer concerns. She has a reputation in the town for getting things done, and aims to build on that as a District Councillor.
Pauline has lived with her husband and family in Cranbrook for over a year, since moving from Exmouth. She's been an Exmouth town councillor for four years. She is a loving foster carer to many, and runs a cake-making business from home. Pauline will fight tooth and nail for Cranbrook's wonderful medical centre and for mental health services, and will campaign tirelessly for the delivery of our town centre, skate park and all other promised infrastructure.
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If you are one of the 25 quilters who made and posted Wings of Spring blocks in March, you should have received email from me with the mailing info.
If you didn't receive it or found a mistake on the mailing info sheet, please let me know ASAP. Mistakes happen and I am human.
Here's one of my ideas for using Nann's block, adding some plain background squares in a random arrangement. I called it Kaleidoscope–the name for a bunch of butterflies. This quilt would be 60 x 72 inches.
First, THANK YOU NANN for taking control of the Block Lotto for March. I love the Wings of Spring block.
Because of some upcoming changes in my life, I am looking for a volunteer to lead the block lotto in April–do you have a 6-inch block idea that you think would be great for us? Let me know.
Last, for those who are wondering where the mailing info for the February Alternate 9-Patch blocks … I am working on it. The winners have email from me and as soon as I hear back from both of them, I'll be able to finish up the mailing info and send it to the 20 quilters who made blocks last month.
In the block directions, I suggested you could think of this block as a blocky Drunkards Path block and consider layouts used for that traditional quilt unit. What about this one?
In this traditional quilt, an equal number of blocks are made with opposite fabric placement, so for a Drunkard's Fireball quilt, you'd need to make some blocks with red /orange/pink fabrics in the center and the skinny logs.
To make a large quilt, of course, you'd need to make a bunch of blocks … What if you did that?
Here's how a similar arrangement of Fireball and Reverse Fireball blocks would look.
This quilt will measure 90 inches square. It's made from 144 Fireball blocks, with a 3-inch inner border and a 6-inch outer border. if you wanted a pieced border like the inspiration quilt, make 3 inch Half-Square Triangle units for the inner border.
There are other traditional layouts of drunkard's path blocks to consider … here are a few.
If you win, what will you make from your blocks?
With the latest update update, there is a new editor. It was known as Gutenberg when it was under development and is now just called the WordPress Block Editor.
The new Block editor includes many types of "blocks" you can add and customize in your posts. For us, we'll mostly use Paragraph and Image blocks. The editor puts each paragraph of text and each image into a separate block.
Because each block is separate, you can add things like custom backgrounds and font colors for each block, like I have here.
You will see tabs for Document and Block on the right side of your screen. after you have added the Text and Image blocks for your post click over to the document tab, to set the Category and Tags. To change things like font size and color and background color click the Block tab when you are in the block you want to change.
If you wanted to schedule a post, you'd set the new date and time by looking in section, Status and Availability, at the top, and click the link labelled immediately for Publish–a calendar and options to enter date and time will be displayed.
If you are interested to learn more about the capabilities of the new editor, search for "Gutenberg editor" or "WordPress block editor" and you'll find lots of articles, reviews and videos that go through all the things you can do with the new Block Editor. Here's one … of someone sharing his first experience with the new editor that covers the basics.
The next time you crate a post, you'll notice that that there's been some changes. Along with an update of the underlying WordPress for this site, came a new, more flexible editor.
I'll put together a tutorial post this weekend, but in the meantime, please don't get frustrated and be a little patient with me until then.
As I was waiting for my Black-eyed Peas to cook this morning, I was thinking about the year that was, here at the Block Lotto.
Last year, when I realized that the work and health-stuff I was dealing with was overwhelming, a number of quilters stepped up and took over the Block Lotto–one month at a time. I probably haven't said it enough, but I am very grateful to Robin, Cathy K, Angie, Beth, Deana, Nann (who hosted twice!), Julie W, Susan, Linda, and Karen for bringing their design and color ideas and organizational skills and hostessing the Block Lotto.
I am looking forward to meeting more creative quilters and seeing more interesting blocks and great quilt in 2019! Thank you all for bringing your creativity here.
For those of you who celebrate it, I hope you had a peaceful Christmas. A reminder to everyone that the drawing will take place on this coming Monday, New Year's Eve. As my time zone is about 7 hours ahead of most of you (UTC+02), I will try to do it as close to mid-day Eastern Standard Time (UTC-05) as possible.
Cheers, Karen in Cape Town.
Based on the survey feedback, here's my vision for 2019 and the rules for anyone who'd like to create a pattern and be the Block Mom for a month next year.
Have designs which become something more when they are joined into a 4-patch.
Or or it could be a block which has a secondary design element in a straight set.
The feedback was that things needs to be more regular and predictable and that the leader needs to be more engaged throughout the month. To that end, here are the rules for Block Lotto Leaders.
On DAY 1 of the month, you must create 2 posts: One with the block choice, pattern and guidelines and one in which you will update the number of blocks made (at least weekly).
I understand that some of you don't understand the reasons for maintaining a list post … but this year, when the list wasn't created/updated, there have been more mistakes in the final count.
On the LAST day of the month, you will select the winner(s). If you aren't going to be available on that day of the week or that particular date, DON'T agree to lead that month.
On at least one other day during the second or third week of the month, create a post related to the lotto block–it could be about your inspiration (for block or color/fabric combination), it could be quilt design ideas for using the lotto blocks in a quilt or for using the block pattern for your own projects.


We are a private equity backed manufacturer seeking a program management resource to manage the launch of new products with new production lines.
This would involve coordinating international capital equipment manufacturers, mostly in Europe, setting up the line, hiring/training employees, qualifying the line (PPAP) with customers and suppliers, ultimately transitioning a fully qualified and operating line from the engineering to manufacturing.
We need someone who can manage a multi-functional team (engineering, quality, manufacturing ect.) and lead by influence and example in order to get everyone to finish line on time and on budget. We are after someone with a strong track record of successfully managing projects and rolling up their sleeves.
The projects are located in Columbus, OH and Knoxville, TN. Someone who lives in the midwest region would be ideal but not required.
6-12 months duration, could lead to a permanent role managing capital projects if desired and if mutually good fit.


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New research project supports UCalgary and West African scholar exchange
Universities Canada, Queen Elizabeth Scholarships program looks to produce "transformational" social workers and social scientists.
By Don McSwiney, Faculty of Social Work
UCalgary project looks to produce "transformative" social workers and social scientists Universities Canada
A new research project supporting a new generation of highly skilled Social Work and Social Science scholars in Canada and West Africa was recently announced by Universities Canada.
The project, entitled Partnering for Innovation in Women-led Social Work and Social Science in West Africa - will support research-focused exchanges for doctoral researchers, post-doctoral fellows and early career scientists between the University of Calgary and Central African countries.
The goals of the UCalgary project include increasing institutional capacity to produce social workers and social scientists who can be a transformational force for communities at home and abroad.
The project is part of Universities Canada's Queen Elizabeth Scholarships - Advanced Scholars program, which will provide funding to more than 200 Canadian and West African researchers and advanced scholars
The University of Calgary project – one of 11 across Canada – will emphasize: Education and Innovation Systems; Climate Resilience and Sustainable Food Systems; and Ethics in Development Research. It's anticipated that up to 16 scholars will be involved.
The second goal is to find solutions to social challenges in West Africa through research on how existing social systems and traditional knowledge affect climate resilience.
In a release, Paul Davidson, president of Universities Canada said, "2020 has demonstrated that global connections are more important than ever. QES scholars are the next generation of innovative leaders and community builders in Canada and around the world. Through their applied research, creative leadership, and professional networking, these scholars will contribute to stronger economies and prosperous societies, and significantly enrich the knowledge base within their respective fields."


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Sueños en tránsito es el tercer álbum de estudio de la cantante chilena Nicole, lanzado en 1997, y el segundo y último con la compañía discográfica BMG. Fue producido por el músico argentino Gustavo Cerati.

El álbum fue recibido con muy buena crítica y superó con creces las expectativas de sus fanáticos. A pesar de ser un trabajo muy distinto a sus dos placas anteriores, logró posicionar a Nicole como una de las cantantes chilenas más importantes de aquellos tiempos. Además, fue reconocida como una de las artistas femeninas de mayor proyección de Latinoamérica, junto a la en ese entonces, naciente Shakira.

Lista de canciones

Historia
A finales de 1996, la cantante junto al músico Andrés Sylleros comienzan a escribir canciones y a registrar los demos para un nuevo disco. Nicole necesitaba un productor musical y decidió contactar personalmente a Gustavo Cerati mientras éste se encontraba en Chile. El músico aceptó inmediatamente.

Durante enero de 1997, el Ingeniero de sonido Guillermo Ugarte (exintegrante del grupo electrónico Los Mismos), Gustavo Cerati, Nicole y Sylleros ingresaron a los estudios Master de Santiago, para ir dando forma al disco. En abril del mismo año, fue masterizado en Londres.

Sueños en tránsito fue publicado el 19 de junio. Bajo un estilo Pop-Rock con matices electrónicos, la placa ofrece un sonido muy adelantado a la época en que fue publicado.

Más adelante, se lanzó una Edición Limitada: CD Multimedia o Enhanced CD del Disco, que contiene imágenes de la grabación del Álbum, videos, fotos, material exclusivo, acordes, archivos de prensa, etc.

El primer sencillo, es «Despiértame». En el videoclip, filmado en blanco y negro, Nicole pasea por las calles de Buenos Aires. La canción se posiciona en los primeros lugares de Rankings radiales en Chile y varios países de Latinoamérica.

«Todo lo que quiero» es el segundo sencillo. En el videoclip, Nicole representa a una sensual "Cat Woman". El video fue nominado a un premio MTV Latino en 1998.

«No soy de nadie», de la compositora argentina Carola Bony, es el tercer sencillo. A diferencia de los dos anteriores, no tiene videoclip.

El cuarto sencillo es «Noche», una balada romántica escrita por el argentino Leo García. Es la canción más recordada del disco, junto a «Despiértame».

«Sirenas» fue elegido el quinto sencillo promocional, es una canción inspirada en una joven lesbiana, amiga de Nicole. No tiene videoclip.

Logros y premios
 Su primer sencillo "Despiértame" llega al número uno en radios de Chile, Paraguay, México y Perú.
 "Despiértame" ingresa al Top 20 de MTV.
 Premio MTV "Mejor Interpretación Femenina en Video". Nicole es la primera Chilena en recibir un MTV.
 Premios APES, mejor video.
 Encuesta suplemento "Subte", Diario La Tercera. Los lectores eligen a "Sueños en Tránsito" como Mejor disco Chileno del año, superando a "Fome" de Los Tres y a "El Resplandor" de Carlos Cabezas.
 Nominación MTV "Mejor Interpretación Femenina en Video" por "Todo Lo Que Quiero", segundo sencillo del disco.
 Disco de Oro por más de 15 mil copias vendidas.
 Nicole se presenta en vivo en el Festival Rock and Pop de Paraguay.
 Nicole se presenta en Hard Rock de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
 Disco de platino por más de 25.000 copias vendidas de "Sueños en Tránsito".
 En el año 2006, Nicole fue homenajeada por ser un aporte a la cultura gay, debido a la canción "Sirenas", incluida en ésta álbum.

El disco "Sueños en Tránsito" cuenta con dos versiones:

 Standard Version
 Enhanced CD Version (Cd Interactivo Multimedia)

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Noche (En vivo @ SCD Bellavista 13.05.09, Chile)

Álbumes de Chile de 1997
Álbumes de Nicole
Álbumes producidos por Gustavo Cerati

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Benefits: Jobless Relieved Life Raft Still Afloat
CLEVELAND (AP) — Kimberly Smith holds up the piece of paper that is the only thing keeping her from bankruptcy: an application for extended unemployment benefits. She's not happy that she needs it. And she's upset that it was nearly taken away.
"I do deserve it," the 49-year-old says. "I've done everything I could to try and get a job. I tried to get back into the retail industry. I made the effort to, at my age, go back to college."
President Barack Obama extended unemployment benefits for Smith and millions of other Americans when he signed tax-cut legislation Friday. It helps people who have been out of work more than 26 weeks but less than 99 weeks, though the benefits vary greatly from state to state.
They could be just about anybody. People with college degrees and people with no higher education. People who have resorted to living out of their cars. People who have cashed out their retirement savings. People who once held six-figure jobs and people like Smith, who was laid off from her job as a department manager at a jeweler's a year and a half ago.
What unites them is the bitterness in their voices as they talk about how badly they need unemployment benefits — to clothe their children, to pay for heat, to save their homes from foreclosure.
"My options are to not pay my bills, have my house taken away, have creditors on me," says Smith, a mother of two in Lyndhurst, Ohio, who has been supporting her family on an unemployment check that amounts to $477 a week before taxes.
In Ohio and the 24 other states with unemployment rates of at least 8.5 percent, the unemployed can receive benefits for up to 99 weeks. In other states, they get less than that — in some cases as few as 60 weeks, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.
The new law restores, for 13 more months, the 99-week maximum. It also renews federal programs that extend benefits beyond the 26 weeks that states always provide. Those federal programs had expired Nov. 30.
For unemployed people who spoke to The Associated Press across the country, the extension is a relief, but a shadow of the relief a new job would provide. They are frustrated not only with their struggles to find work, but with the accusations — on TV, even by protesters outside the office for food stamps — that they're lazy, that they're not trying hard enough.
Right now, there is nothing Smith would like more than a job. Anything to get her out of her living room, where she spends her days trolling the Internet for jobs while the snow piles up outside.
Before her job with the jeweler, she spent two decades working for a fashion retailer that ended up leaving northeast Ohio.
Smith doesn't intend to settle for a low-skill, low-wage job, saying she's not going to "throw myself into poverty."
"That's just making people settle for whatever can be had," she said. "Speaking for myself, I didn't spend 25 years in a career that was supposed to be my livelihood for the rest of my life to go work at a Starbucks."
Instead, she has re-educated herself.
There are jobs in the medical industry, people told her. So she went back to school and became a certified medical assistant. Weeks blurred into months. And still Smith cannot find a job.
"We, the middle class, are just trying to keep our heads above water," she says. "And you know what? We're drowning."
"THEY HAVE NO IDEA"
"If I hear one more senator, congressman, TV pundit or whatever..."
Theresa Christenson can't finish the sentence before breaking into tears.
"It really gets me when they say 'you lazy people,'" says Christenson, who lives on $1,720 a month in unemployment insurance benefits and what's left of her dwindling 401K. "They have no idea how depressing that is when you have been beating your head against the wall, trying to find work. Every time I see that or read it, I just start crying. They have no idea."
Before she was laid off from a quality assurance job at Yahoo! in July 2009, Christenson, of Burbank, Calif., earned around $100,000 a year. The 58-year-old has managed to hang on to the 4-bedroom house that she co-owns with her sister, where they've lived for 22 years. Without the extension, she expected to lose the stucco, one-story "house that looks like every other house."
She knows she's better off than others, but depression has set in during the long, hard months of fruitless searching.
"People who have lost their homes and are now living out of their car — my heart shatters for them," she says. "I'm very, very thankful for the extension."
Yet she says she's disgusted by the deal between Obama and congressional Republicans that made the extension possible — a deal that preserved tax cuts for the wealthy as well as the poor.
"I hate the cost," she says. "That we got it at the cost of millionaires and billionaires getting to keep their money and stay at the same tax rate."
WINTER TO OUTLAST BENEFITS
The furnace broke down not long ago in Tina Price's ranch home in Southfield, Mich., so she resorted to plugging in space heaters to keep her children warm. The 36-year-old mother of two young boys doesn't expect much of a Christmas this year.
Her unemployment benefits were cut off in November and she's been unemployed for about 92 weeks. She took a buyout from American Axle several years ago and hasn't had steady employment since.
"I was just able to get them boots," Price says of her children. "I'm just trying to keep my utilities on. There is absolutely nothing I can do at this point."
The biweekly unemployment checks worth about $670 will last a few more weeks thanks to the new extension. But not enough to get her family through the winter.
"I'm still struggling to get things right," she says. "My bills are sky-high because I have not been able to pay them — the light bill, gas bill and water bill. I try to keep agreements with the utilities."
Price still receives state assistance to buy food. Friends, family and "generous people" have also been helping, she says. She's taking information technology classes as part of a career retraining program.
"I think everyone, right now, is stressed out," she says.
SAVVY, 60, STRIKING OUT
Mike Bryson left Pittsburgh when the steel industry collapsed, heading south for greener pastures in the form of Maryland's electronics and computer industry. He found a job there but returned when it ended, and has been out of work since August 2009.
Bryson has experience and education — he recently attended a technical training center and has many computer certifications — but the 60-year-old believes his age has made it more difficult to find a job. He's sent out hundreds of resumes.
"Right now, I'm computer savvy, Internet savvy, degreed, certified," he says. "And I can't find anything."
Bryson was homeless and lived in his car for a while before finding the McKees Rocks Employment and Training Center, where he now works about 20 hours a week, making minimum wage and, ironically, helping other people improve their resumes and find work.
He still qualifies for about $200 a month in unemployment benefits, but says it's still hard to make ends meet. He has no health insurance and fears what will happen when his car, which has more than 200,000 miles on it, breaks down for good.
"I want to work. I want a job. I'm tired of this," Bryson says. "I have a car that's breaking down on me everyday. I can't live like this."
LAYOFF AFTER LAYOFF
Without the unemployment extension, Joan Niedhardt would have lost the roof over her head to foreclosure. She is living through her third bout of unemployment since 2004, when budget cuts cost her a $65,000-a-year job as an information technology project manager in state government.
"I am my only means of support," says Niedhardt, of Bel Air, Md., who has been unemployed for the past six months. She desperately needs her current unemployment benefits, which would have run out next week.
She has worked as a grant writer, a public relations executive, a project manager, a web designer. After losing her job in state government, she went back to school for another degree in business management and computer science and a certification in web graphic design.
The other stretches of unemployment lasted nine months and two years, respectively.
Because she is overqualified for many jobs and nearing retirement age, Niedhardt suspects that employers worry she will leave for "something better that hasn't come along in over six years."
"I'd be perfect as a government contractor or employee, but most of the open positions require a current security clearance," she says, "which you can't get without an employee sponsor."
A TREE WITH NO PRESENTS
Zyola Nix is grateful that her 3-year-old daughter is too young to remember this Christmas in years to come. The 40-year-old single mother, who was laid off in March from a job in electrical mechanical design, put up a Christmas tree in their one-bedroom apartment. But there aren't any presents beneath it.
"I don't have an actual gift I can give her," says Nix, of Denver. "For my daughter, it's going to be like any other day."
Nix worries about finding work in the aerospace and defense sectors, which have suffered from cuts to federal programs. She has a bachelor's degree in engineering and astrophysics, "which is cool-sounding on paper but doesn't do much in the workplace."
She's grateful for the benefits extension — she gets about $1,600 a month, half of what she used to make. But she'd rather be working.
Reluctantly, but out of necessity, she's gone to sign up for food stamps twice. Each time, Nix had to pass protesters who told her to get a job and stop mooching off the government.
"I don't think some people ever could understand. I don't think they have the capacity to understand," she says. "They have an image of what an unemployed person is like, and there is no way to change that image until that person experiences true unemployment. And most of them never will."
Associated Press Writers Shaya Tayefe Mohajer in Los Angeles, Corey Williams in Detroit, Jennifer C. Yates in Pittsburgh, Thomas J. Sheeran in Cleveland and Alex Dominguez in Baltimore contributed to this report.
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67 cities, counties and states join Data-Driven Justice Initiative
Tue, 2016-07-05 06:00 -- Compassionate C...
It's hard to disagree with those who argue America's criminal justice system is broken, especially when you read some of the statistics cited by the White House when it announced its new Data-Driven Justice Initiative. As part of the initiative, 67 cities, counties and states have committed to using data to identify and proactively break the cycle of incarceration. As you'll see below, the issue isn't only about the high cost of incarceration, although that is a factor. It's also about fairness and compassion. -- Philip Bane
Every year more than 11 million people move through America's 3,100 local jails, many on low-level, non-violent misdemeanors, costing local governments approximately $22 billion a year.
Who are they? According to a White House fact sheet:
64% of them are people who suffer from mental illness
68% have a substance abuse disorder
44% suffer from chronic health problems
Many communities find that a relatively small number of these highly-vulnerable people cycle repeatedly through local jails, but also through hospital emergency rooms, shelters and other public systems. Along the way they receive fragmented and uncoordinated care at great cost to American taxpayers, with poor outcomes.
Miami-Dade finds a better way
Over a four-year period, officials in Miami-Dade County, Florida found that just 97 people with serious mental illness spent more than 39,000 days in either jail, emergency rooms, state hospitals or psychiatric facilities in their county – accounting for $13.7 million in services.
After the county trained 911 dispatchers and police officers in mental health de-escalation techniques, the results were eye-opening. Over the past five years, police have responded to nearly 50,000 calls regarding people in mental-health crises, but made only 109 arrests. Instead, they diverted 10,000 people to services or safely stabilized the situation without arrest.
Additionally, according to the White House, the jail population fell from over 7,000 to just over 4,700, and the county was able to close an entire jail facility, saving nearly $12 million a year.
Using a data-based strategy in NC
Many people who are in jail – and not yet convicted of any crime – are there because they can't afford bail. Officials in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina wanted to do something about that. In 2014 they started using a data-based risk assessment tool to identify low-risk people in their jails and ways to release them safely.
The result? Since they started using the tool and releasing more low-risk individuals, the jail population has dropped 40% with no increase in crime.
And these sorts of innovative strategies to reduce the number of mentally ill and low-risk offenders behind bars are what the Obama Administration is calling for in its new Data-Driven Justice Initiative.
The 67 jurisdictions taking part have committed to:
Using data from criminal justice and health systems to identify and proactively break the cycle of incarceration
Equipping law enforcement and first responders with the tools they need to respond and divert people appropriate service providers instead of arresting them
Use data-driven, validated, pre-trial risk assessment tools to inform pre-trial release decisions
Providing resources
For its part, the White House plans to develop a toolkit with best practices and step-by-step guidance for communities interested in developing a strong pre-arrest diversion program. With veterans accounting for approximately 7% of people in local jails and 55% of them with a mental illness, the Administration also pledged to improve mental health services for vets. And to help spur further innovation and sharing, it has recruited private sector, community organizations and nonprofits to join the initiative.
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Q: How to create a new oracle database with hibernate I am new to hibernate and I am following a tutorial of hibernate within Java EE application, here is my persistence.xml file:
<persistence xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence"
             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
             xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence
             http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_1.xsd"
             version="2.1">

    <persistence-unit name="punit">

    </persistence-unit>
</persistence>

And here my hibernate configuration it is in file called jpaContext.xml.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.2.xsd">

    <bean id="entityManagerFactory"
        class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
        <property name="persistenceUnitName" value="punit" />
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
        <property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
            <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
                <property name="showSql" value="true" />
            </bean>
        </property>

        <property name="jpaPropertyMap">
            <map>
                <entry key="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect" />
                <entry key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create" />
                <entry key="hibernate.format_sql" value="true" />
            </map>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
        <property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
    </bean>
    <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
    <bean id="dataSource"
        class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
        <property name="driverClassName" value="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver" />
        <property name="url" value="jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:orcl" />
        <property name="username" value="SYS AS SYSDBA" />
        <property name="password" value="password" />
    </bean>

The problem I have is when I start the server (for first time) no new database is created but only a table for an entity I have in my application, within the SYS schema as you can see in the image below:

Here is the entity which table is created:
package com.pluralsight.model;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.Table;
import javax.persistence.Id;

import org.hibernate.validator.constraints.Range;

@Entity
@Table(name="goals")
public class Goal {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    private Long Id;

    @Range(min = 1, max = 120)
    @Column(name="MINUTES")
    private int minutes;

    public int getMinutes() {
        return minutes;
    }

    public void setMinutes(int minutes) {
        this.minutes = minutes;
    }

    public Long getId() {
        return Id;
    }

    public void setId(Long id) {
        Id = id;
    }

}

While what I am looking for is to create the new database instance (if it does not exist) for the application I am developing and to give it (the same that the application for example )
Does anyone know how can I achieve this with hibernate ?

A:
what I am looking for is to create the new database instance

What the likes of MySQL call a database, Oracle calls a schema. But whereas in MySQL, a database is separate and distinct from a user, in Oracle a schema is pretty much synonymous with a user. So effectively that user / schema needs to be created before your application (or, at least, the Hibernate SessionFactory) starts. The Oracle JDBC driver is not going to do that for you unfortunately.
You can create a user as follows:
create user foobar identified by somepass;

then give it the appropriate privileges
grant connect to foobar;
grant create sequence to foobar;
grant create session to foobar;
grant create table to foobar;
grant create trigger to foobar;
grant unlimited tablespace to foobar;
...

then the application can connect to the database as that user and hibernate will be able to create the tables in that user's schema.
Alternatively, you can just create the user / schema and continue to connect as a different user (e.g. SYS) but set the default schema in Hibernate:
<property name="hibernate.default_schema" value="foobar"/>

which will ensure that all the tables are created in the correct schema.

A: I can suggest you one thing, though i don't know whether it will work or not. Add property
<entry key="hibernate.default_schema" value="ABC" />

and change <entry key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create" />
to
<entry key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="update" />.

You can check these links!
spring boot automatically create database schema Error
https://developer.jboss.org/thread/106922]
https://docs.jboss.org/jbossas/jboss4guide/r2/html/ch13.html

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Yamas and Niyamas are the 1st and 2nd limbs of yoga (Patanjali, Yoga Sutras) and are self regulation, living these in society and with oneself; which help to overcome the limiting and restrictive aspect of the mind and help us when observed to live our lives appropriately, from the higher mind and leads to Sattwa guna, purity, correctness. These cannot be forced, but we can be aware of the yamas and niyamas in our daily lives and with the yoga practices of Bihar School of Yoga, Satyananda Yoga® as well, the yamas and niyamas slowly start to manifest in us from within effortlessly.
Ishwara Pranidhana - total, unconditional surrender to God, Cosmic Consciousness, Laws of the Universe (God's Will, 'Na ham karta, tu hi karta kevalam') Aligning ourselves with the Permanent, unchanging, and not Nashwara, temporary, changing, impermanent.
Yamas and Niyamas continue throughout our lifetime and through all the 8 limbs of yoga and help us to keep advancing.
If you wish to know more about "Yamas & Niyamas" please go to yogamag.net. Search "Yamas & Niyamas part 1 and 2 by Swami Omananda."
*"Asana is defined in Sage Patanjali's Yoga Sutras as 'that position which is comfortable and steady'. The raja yogis, then, practiced asanas to develop the ability to sit comfortably in one position for an extended period of time, as necessary for meditation. The hatha yogis, however, found that asanas open the energy channels and psychic centres. They became tools to attain higher awareness, enabling the exploration of the body, breath, mind and subtle states.
Today, asanas are acknowledged to be techniques which place the physical body in positions that cultivate awareness, relaxation, concentration and meditation. An important part of this process is the development of good physical health by stretching, massaging and stimulating the pranic channels and internal organs.
Scientific research has proved that asanas prevent disease, promote health and have curative abilities, therefore many professionals use them to manage psycho-somatic stresses and diseases.
*"Asanas work on both the body and the mind. These are not separate entities although there is a tendency to think and act as though they are. The gross form of the mind is the body and the subtle form of the body is the mind. Practising asanas integrates and harmonises the two."
The shatkarmas consist of six groups of purification practices which harmonise different aspects of the body and personality, inducing physical and mental purification and balance.
*"Mudras can be described as psychic, emotional, devotional and aesthetic gestures or attitudes which link individual pranic force with universal or cosmic force. Bandhas aim to lock prana in particular areas of the body and redirect it for the purpose of spiritual awakening. The physiological and psychological effects of mudras and bandhas have been examined and systematised."
*"Prana means 'vital energy' or 'life force', ayama means 'to expand', accordingly pranayama is expansion of the vital energy. This vital energy is responsible for all life experiences including physical and spiritual.
Pranayamas harmonize the pranic body which is a network of nerve channels carrying the vital force to each and every cell and organ infusing them with life and dynamism. Pranayamas are also the preparatory practices for the awakening of the chakras (psychic centres) and aid in the perfection of kriya and kundalini yogas.
In the past pranayamas were taught to a select few as a part of higher yoga practice, but in the course of time Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati reintroduced the subject of pranayama as a part of daily yoga sadhana. The sequence in which the pranayamas are taught today by many yoga schools were developed by the Bihar School of Yoga."
Pratyahara is the 5th limb of yoga (Patanjali). It is said that 'yoga' actually begins here. Prior to pratyahara it is preparation. Stilling the mind starts here at pratyahara. One begins to move inwards. There are many yoga techniques of pratyahara, such as shavasana, yoga nidra to name a few that have been developed by Satyananda Yoga® from ancient scriptures. Tensions can be removed so that relaxation can occur.
Concentration techniques that comprise the 6th limb of yoga (Patanjali) that help the mind to focus and strengthen, to become one-pointed. This stage leads to Dhyana.
Meditation or Dhyana is the 7th limb of yoga (Patanjali). In actual fact Dhyana means 'attention!'.
All techniques of Pratyahara, Dharana and Dhyana have different levels and stages of practice as clarified by the Satyananda Yoga® or Bihar School of Yoga tradition, derived from the Upanishads, Tantra, Samkhya traditions which have also been classified, taught and published by Bihar School of Yoga publications, classes and courses.


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You Can't Win
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You Cant Win, the beloved memoir of real lowdown Americana by criminal hobo Jack Black, was first published in 1926, then reprinted in 1988 by Adam Parfreys Amok Press, featuring an introduction by William S. Burroughs.
After its Amok Press edition went out of print, You Cant Win found popularity once again with the AK Press edition.
Feral Houses new version will take this classic American narrative a lot further, including two remarkable nonfiction articles by Jack Black written for Harper's Magazine in the 1920s. Remarkable illustrations by Joe Coleman and new biographical revelations by Donald Kennison will round out the new edition.
A full-length feature film of You Cant Win starring Boardwalk Empires Michael Pitt is expected to be released in spring 2013.
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This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't
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In recent years, tourism in Iceland grew rapidly, with an average year-on-year growth in tourist arrivals of over 25% since 2013, peaking in 2016 with 38% growth, Inga Hlín Pálsdóttir, director at Visit Iceland, told USA TODAY. And for U.S. travelers, Iceland's capital remains among the 50 most popular international destinations, Jennifer Dohm, Head of PR for the Americas at Hotels.com, told USA TODAY.
We've been seeing more 'Instagrammable' and remote destinations grow in popularity over the last year, including other North Atlantic destinations like Greenland, Dohm said.
Clive Stacey, managing director of travel agency Discover the World, told The Telegraph that the slow down is partly due to the fact that the place is getting a reputation for being a little bit crowded, but that doesn't mean that it is.
Chris Davidson, EVP of Insights & Strategy at travel and hospitality marketing agency MMGY Global, told USA TODAY that data shows travelers are just as interested, or even more so, in visiting even as (international or domestic destinations) increase in popularity.
Davidson says they have little evidence to back up the notion that tourists are bothered enough by overcrowding at major tourism destinations but that there may be a tipping point where travelers ultimately feel the experience is somewhat compromised by long lines and crowded streets, he added.
Interest isn't totally fading for tourists, but it could changing.
Turner told USA TODAY spend per visitor has been declining, and tourists are now shorting their trips to the country and mainly going to Reykjavik and areas around the southern coast, as opposed to elsewhere in Iceland.
Arion reports the increased capacity of the Icelandic airlines played a significant role in Iceland's tourism spike a few years ago. Cut to today: Iceland's low-cost carrier WOW Air ceased operations at the end of March, leaving passengers left in the lurch.
Growth has been dragged down in part due to a decline of (WOW Air), however other airlines are now starting to pick up the flight routes, Turner noted. Iceland's slowing growth last year needs to be examined in context to its prior strong growth, Turner added.
Pálsdóttir of Visit Iceland echoed Turner's sentiment: Iceland tourism is not as dependent on specific airlines as before since there are many more airlines offering flights to and from Iceland compared to few years ago.
Iceland faced an economic collapse about a decade ago and had since spent time recovering. An associate professor at the University of Iceland, Gylfi Magnusson, told Bloomberg in October that a tourism crisis could influence the economy at large, like demand for labor, investments in hotels, the current account balance, the exchange rate of the krona (Iceland's currency), and so on.


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